2020 Vision | Seeing in Black & White
June 1, 2020
To strip a scene of its colour is to see deeper into the Light.
No Colour.
Different shades of Grey.
A relationship with the Shadow, Contrast and Hi-Lights.
The great masters like Henri Cartier Brendon, Robert Kapa, Brassai all saw the world in shades of grey.
I kind of miss not having studied Photography using film.
This was the time to create images with careful intent.
Ansel Adams knew best.
Black & White doesn’t get in the way.
The truth of the Light is revealed as it sculpts the subject.
Colour Imagery is how I see.
Sometimes, the Light reduces Colour to a flat and boring expression. That’s when Black and White becomes real for me.
Colour is magic.
Black and White is Raw truthful expression.
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